The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-03
. ABOUT TEN WOMEN.
How They Have Achieved Fame in Various
Walks of Life.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
New YORK, April Though Henry George
has acquired such large celebrity, his wifss
name has hardly been mentioned in the papers
that speak of him so often and so much She
is a thorough home-body, devoted to her hus-
band and their four children. She is one of the
small, plump CHEEKY bodies that never get
down-hearted, and people who have known them
q long time say that but for her unfaRginR de-
votion and her enthusiastic belief in him Mr.
George would never have been able to come tri-
umphantly through the long period of straitened
means and hard work which preceded his sudden
success
People who know Nina Van Zandt say that she
is very different woman from what the news
paper accounts would have one think They
say that her love for Spies is genuine affection.
as deep and intense as that of girl for her first
hero.
Mrs. Josephine Redding is one of the most
successful women journalists in New York.
For several years she has been the editor Of the
Art Interchange, and under her management
that paper grew SO successful that its publish
ing company found it necessary to establish an
other paper. a sort of annex, the Home Decora-
ton and at once installed her in it's editorial chair
| She conducts both publications with so much
ability that they have large calculations. and are
| financially very sIccessful. Mrs. Reddng is .
| young woman, small slight and brown-haired,
| with pretty, pquant face, and charming. viva
| cious manners.
| Kate Field is very fond of riding, and when
| she lived in New York always kept horse
which never lacked for exercise, and of whose
| intelligence and accomplishments she was very
| proud. She Is good horsewoman and makes .
| fine figure on horseback
| Bertha Won Hillern, who has been gaining q
good deal of success artist since she quietly
| gave up pedestrianism few years ago, is a de-
| voted Catholic. In the wilds of West Virginia,
| where she spends her summers, she will walk
| ten miles and back under the burning summer
| sun whenever the possibility occurs Of attending
| mass. During her brief winter sojourns in
| Boston she rises before day. walks long dis
tance to the cathedral, attends the first mass.
| and walks back to her hotel in time for an
early breakfast
| Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is small in
| stature, but very plump, and has a large square
face, with fresh English complexion. She is
very youthful and coouettish in her manners,
and talks in girly -girlish kind Of way. Those
| who do not like her even 60 so far as to say she
| is very affected in her manners
| Although Miss Murfree seems to have leaped
| into fame at single bound, she has really been
writing for long time. 1t is ten dozen
years since the signature of Charles Eebert
Craddock first appeared in the Magazines and
ever since then her stories of the Tennessee
mountains have been frequent visitors to the
attract attention until the English went into
raptures over Where the Battle Was Fought"
and then she suddenly found herself famous.
Mrs. Jerness Miller, whose system of aesthetic
dress reform is beginning to attract good deal
| of attention, was once q drees-maker, but her
| enthusiasm for woman suffrage was aroused, and
she left her dress making for the lecture plat
form and spoke through Massachusetts for the
suffragists. She afterward espoused Ben But
lers cause and delivered seveaal addresses in his
behalf during his successful campaign for the
| Massachusetts governorship.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has always belonged to
that class OF women who were dubbed strong
mi nded," some twenty FIVE OR thirty years ago,
but even that reputation and her Concord phi
osophy, too, do not lessen her terror Of crossing
q crowed street. She will gaze helplessly across,
cling to anybody who offers assistance, stand in
the middle of the street and stare at an ap-
preaching horse-car and then grab up her skirts
and run back, just as scofing men declare WON.
en- always do.
Lucy Stone to all young women whom she
meets. in any way whatever. is the personifica-
ton of motherliness. One involuntarily thinks
of her as being the ideal matron of home for
young girls. She is small, and increasing years
have made her rather stout, while herfresh and
rosy complexion cause.her to look much younger
than she really is. CATHERINE HAWKINS.